Articles | Volume 26, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2245-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2245-2022
Research article
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02 May 2022
Research article |  | 02 May 2022

The effects of spatial and temporal resolution of gridded meteorological forcing on watershed hydrological responses

Pin Shuai, Xingyuan Chen, Utkarsh Mital, Ethan T. Coon, and Dipankar Dwivedi

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Using an integrated watershed model, we compared simulated watershed hydrologic variables driven by three publicly available gridded meteorological forcings (GMFs) at various spatial and temporal resolutions. Our results demonstrated that spatially distributed variables are sensitive to the spatial resolution of the GMF. The temporal resolution of the GMF impacts the dynamics of watershed responses. The choice of GMF depends on the quantity of interest and its spatial and temporal scales.